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Audio Recording Easter Benson's morning routine

[Easter Benson's morning routine]

About this Item

Title

  • Easter Benson's morning routine

Names

  • Benson, Easter (Narrator)
  • Levitas, Susan, 1961- (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-08-11

Headings

  • -  African Americans
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Foodways
  • -  Restaurants
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  Work processes
  • -  Hours of labor
  • -  E & A Soul Food Restaurant (Paterson, N.J.)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Easter Benson, owner of E & A Soul Food Restaurant.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: Restaurant opens at 5:30 a.m.; serves all three meals; closes at 8 p.m. She gets up at 3 a.m. and leaves at 3:30, goes to market for produce, comes to restaurant; market is on Railroad Avenue and goes to Statewide Produce. Once here, she unloads trunk into the back shed to store the vegetables; then she starts making biscuits. At 6 a.m., the two waitresses come in and she may sit down and nod until 7 a.m.; then she goes into kitchen and peels potatoes, cuts up collards, cabbage, beans, and more.

Medium

  • Digital Audio Tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-SL-A009

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Benson, Easter, and Susan Levitas. Easter Benson's morning routine. -08-11, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003606/.

APA citation style:

Benson, E. & Levitas, S. (1994) Easter Benson's morning routine. -08-11. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003606/.

MLA citation style:

Benson, Easter, and Susan Levitas. Easter Benson's morning routine. -08-11, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003606/>.